The Irish standard., 1887-10-01

IIeSUytcIldu lululSGcI WHO Has Uc6u
moderator of the general assembly, the
provost of the Dublin University, the
president of Maynooth College, a rep
rssentative Of the Royal University,
and two or more judges of the supreme
court in whose discretion and DISPOSE
tion the nation has confidence. Among
the Irish peerage there are more than
dozen who have either pronounced for
the principle of home rule or are not
hostile to it if a fair scheme be devired,
and they have the first right to be sena-
tors. Men who have conducted indus
trial enterprises successfully, who have
served in Parliament with distinction.
manufacturers from Belfast, merchants
from Cork, and the pick of the legal
medical and engineer professions would
find natural place there. And there
are men who have none of these official
claims, but who have moral claims,
whose character and life fit them for
the duty of being arbitrators between
the majority and the minority Those
who understand Ireland au fond know
that it would not be difficult to name
exceptional men, not belonging to the
higher but to the middle class, who en-
joy the confidence of large sections of
the nation, and who might be counted
on as confidently as the highest mag
nate in church or state to resist injus-
tice to any man or interest. To the
popular chamber we send advocates;
to the Senate we ought to send umpires
and Judges If it be constituted in the
manner suggested, of men of acknow-
lodged capacity, integrity and services,
who represent the sense and experience
of the community, and possess it's con-
fdence, it's decision in all cases of diff
ficulty would be received by the people
in the same spirit that the household
acknowledge the authority of the pater-
familias. And, as it is no longer rash
to affirm that home rule must come.
reasonable opponents cease to be ''un-
transacting,' and begin to consider the
terms of compromise. That it must
come sooner or later is past rational de-
bate. 1t has reached the stage where
it's coming is simply question of date.
When parliamentary reform, Catholic
emancipation or free trade was formu-
lated by a government, and made the
condition of it's existence, it would have
been as hopeless task to settle any of
these demands by any other method
than concession as to turn back the
Thames to its source. And home rule
has at long last reached the same point.
The only question is. whether it will
come on the inclined plane of compro-
mise, or come in a rush, and the min
ority cannot doubt which method they
would prefer. What is the state of
mind of the other party? There is con-
fessedly large Catholic middle class
who desire nothing so much as to live
in.peace and amity with their Protes-
tant fellow.c .countrymen. They are
silent at present because the Irish party
are doing essential work; ana even when
they do not sympathize with it's meth
ods and agencies they will not take the
responsibility of embarrassing a cause
which has so often suffered from di-
vision. They want to see Ireland's
national right restored without undue
strain on the social system, and with
the least possible offence to opponents.
AS for the peasantry, when they are Sc
cured the honest fruits of their indus
try, there never was race more dis
posed to be allies and partisans of their
social superiors Their weakness is
run too far and too fast in that dlrec-
tion. What grinding tyrannyit needed
to make them what they have become
we may estimate from the transforma-
tion they have undergone. It is said
they are demoralized by agitation, and
it may be so. It is one of the penalties
of human weakness that the justest
war often creates a fierce and licentious
soldiery, and the most generous resist
ance to wrong violent and intractable
population. Boycotting, adopted for
great public end, has sometimes been
basely employed as the instrument of
private vengeance. Ana sympathy
with crime must have become savage
and insensate in that corner of Ireland
where the brave Irish girls of the Cur
tbs family were hooted and hustled out
of the house of God for avenging their
fathers death. But those who know
how long the Irish people endured
wrong with slavish submission, how
often they lay down and died IN hope
less torpor, will not misunderstood the
inevitable reaction.-B0ston Republic.
There will be an encampment of
veterans at Red Wing. October l3, IA.
and Is, under the auspices of A. Ed
wards, Welch post, G.. A. r.
{ Pine timber along the Rum River in
the Brainerd district has been badly
damaged by fire. The heaviest loss
was on the Niles .Lacs reservation.